Interesting subreddits
We found 87 active interesting subreddits: communities with at least one new post a day on average in September 2026, ranked by members. The largest is r/todayilearned with 41.7M members. The busiest is r/mildlyinteresting, with 5,276 posts last month. In 5 of the 61 we could measure, a brand-new account's post usually stays up: they remove 17% or fewer of posts from accounts under a week old.
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- r/todayilearned41.7M members
- r/mildlyinteresting5,276 posts in September 2026
- r/whoathatsinteresting+1054% members in 12 months
- r/doohickeycorporation3% of new-account posts removed
All active interesting subreddits, by members
| # | Subreddit | Members | Posts / month | Member growth, 12 mo | Median author age | Women | Posts with a reply | New-account posts removed | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | r/todayilearned↗You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here. | 41.7M | 3,330 | +2% | 30 | 23% | 62% | 93% | Yes |
| 2 | r/Showerthoughts↗A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies that make the mundane more amazing. | 34.2M | 3,021 | +1% | 26 | 24% | 99% | 100% | No |
| 3 | r/videos↗Reddit's main subreddit for videos. Please read the sidebar below for our rules. | 26.9M | 2,365 | +1% | 29 | 17% | 63% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 4 | r/mildlyinteresting↗Aww, cripes. I didn't know I'd have to write a description. How many words is that so far, like a hundred? Soooo, yeah. Mildly interesting stuff. Stuff that interests you. Mildly. It's in the name, ff | 25.4M | 5,276 | +3% | 29 | 28% | 95% | 100% | Yes |
| 5 | r/LifeProTips↗Tips that improve your life in one way or another. | 23.1M | 579 | +1% | 30 | 29% | 77% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 6 | r/gifs↗"GIFs" is officially pronounced with a hard "J" | 21.5M | 150 | 0% | 28 | 20% | 90% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 7 | r/Damnthatsinteresting↗For the most interesting things on the internet | 20.6M | 2,367 | +4% | 31 | 24% | 75% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 8 | r/interestingasfuck↗For anything truly interesting as fuck | 16.9M | 4,913 | +7% | 30 | 25% | 56% | 100% | Yes |
| 9 | r/InternetIsBeautiful↗10/10 would bookmark again | 16.6M | 564 | +1% | 30 | 18% | 53% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 10 | r/lifehacks↗Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems. | 14.6M | 160 | +1% | 32 | 31% | 46% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 11 | r/coolguides↗Picture based reference guides for anything and everything. If it seems like something someone might print, physically post, and reference then it is a good link for this sub. Remember: Infographics | 6.11M | 190 | +3% | 30 | 23% | 88% | 82% | Yes |
| 12 | r/YouShouldKnow↗You Should Know | 5.64M | 140 | +3% | 30 | 30% | 81% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 13 | r/whatisthisthing↗For the identification of mysterious objects | 3.17M | 2,059 | +5% | 30 | 30% | 75% | 99% | Yes |
| 14 | r/confusing_perspective↗Confusing Perspective | 2.21M | 407 | +6% | 30 | 25% | 84% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 15 | r/interesting↗🔥🔥A place to share interesting content that is extraordinary and fascinating! 🔥🔥👀 -- Please review the sub rules before posting. -- New accounts can participate in the comments section right away, | 2.15M | 2,714 | +60% | 35 | 24% | 97% | 98% | Yes |
| 16 | r/ofcoursethatsathing↗For all the things that make you go "Of COURSE that's a thing" | 2M | 44 | +1% | 28 | 26% | 65% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 17 | r/specializedtools↗A place to post tools which were created for a specific purpose. Doesn't necessarily have to be *one* purpose. | 1.57M | 34 | +1% | 30 | 16% | 8% | 50% | Yes |
| 18 | r/megalophobia↗Fear of Large Things | 1.15M | 279 | +6% | 32 | 19% | 87% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 19 | r/RandomThoughts↗Unbeckoned, they pop into your head. | 1M | 1,931 | +7% | 31 | 39% | 100% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 20 | r/FindTheSniper↗The well camouflaged hiding in plain sight. Original content only. | 855K | 309 | +7% | 34 | 31% | 98% | 47% | Yes |
| 21 | r/CrazyIdeas↗Is your idea too crazy to work? So crazy it might work? Perfect. | 851K | 562 | +3% | 28 | 19% | 84% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 22 | r/mildyinteresting↗A place for things that are of slight interest, including sticks, fingers, hands and wasps. | 778K | 1,654 | +31% | 33 | 28% | 97% | 49% | Yes |
| 23 | r/LearnUselessTalents↗This is a place to learn how to do cool things that have no use other than killing time and impressing strangers. | 717K | 92 | +2% | 28 | 20% | 63% | 69% | Yes |
| 24 | r/wikipedia↗A place to share interesting Wikipedia articles, and talk about Wikipedia and its sister projects. Not officially affiliated with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. | 671K | 991 | +7% | 32 | 22% | 71% | 49% | Yes |
| 25 | r/Infographics↗Infographics | 543K | 316 | +11% | 33 | 15% | 79% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 26 | r/FoundPaper↗Photographs of found pieces of paper with writing on them, photographs or discarded cutouts. Appreciate the forgotten artifacts of everyday life. Share any paper that you found (on the ground, stuck | 524K | 658 | +15% | 33 | 53% | 81% | 20% | Yes |
| 27 | r/lastimages↗Postings here are the last known photographs or videos of a person. Also, the last picture taken by a person just before their death is acceptable. Pictures of people only please! You may additional c | 497K | 120 | +4% | 31 | 40% | 77% | 80% | Yes |
| 28 | r/Miniworlds↗For the tiny places you discover (or make) that look like they could be a world of their own. | 470K | 46 | +2% | 29 | 36% | 85% | – | Yes |
| 29 | r/MoldlyInteresting↗This is a place for all mold lovers to post interesting things about mold. Our community encourages post such as: mold facts, mold questions, mold advice, asking for help to identify certain molds, te | 461K | 547 | +14% | 29 | 45% | 83% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 30 | r/DesirePath↗Dedicated to the paths that humans prefer, rather than the paths that humans create. | 417K | 111 | +10% | 28 | 26% | 74% | 100% | Yes |
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| # | Subreddit | Members | Posts / month | Member growth, 12 mo | Median author age | Women | Posts with a reply | New-account posts removed | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | r/RealLifeShinies↗The term "shiny" originates from Pokémon. It is a term used to describe a pokémon that is a completely different color from all others in their species. We have taken that idea and applied to real lif | 394K | 124 | +12% | 27 | 38% | 78% | – | Yes |
| 32 | r/lostmedia↗For the discussion of lost media, and the searches for them. | 389K | 875 | +17% | 23 | 32% | 55% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 33 | r/Wellworn↗A subreddit dedicated to the tools that take a beating. | 362K | 230 | +9% | 28 | 25% | 77% | 65% | Yes |
| 34 | r/confusingperspective↗Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking an | 350K | 576 | +19% | 33 | 28% | 84% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 35 | r/ScienceNcoolThings↗Whatever you find interesting/amazing/geeky is fair game. Crossposting from/to other subreddits is always encouraged! :-) | 331K | 266 | +23% | 36 | 15% | 65% | 28% | Yes |
| 36 | r/doohickeycorporation↗new-account friendlyThe place to share the finest doohickeys, thingamabobbers, watchamacallits, and any other wacky gadgets or gizmos. What has your department been up to? | 318K | 256 | +184% | 32 | 18% | 93% | 3% | Yes |
| 37 | r/toolgifs↗Tools and machines, plus processes, components, and infrastructure. Sometimes entertaining, always educational. | 309K | 145 | +21% | 36 | 13% | 81% | 100% | Yes |
| 38 | r/PastAndPresentPics↗Hilarious and Awesome Re-Enacted Pics, Interesting Photos Years Later, Recreated Photographs, Then and Now, Before and After , Young Me Now Me, You Get the Picture! | 295K | 549 | +29% | 36 | 47% | 78% | 64% | Yes |
| 39 | r/whoathatsinteresting↗discover interesting | 294K | 650 | +1054% | 36 | 22% | 75% | – | Yes |
| 40 | r/opticalillusions↗A subreddit to highlight old and new optical and visual illusions. | 288K | 287 | +46% | 35 | 25% | 84% | 38% | Yes |
| 41 | r/ObscureMedia↗A relaxed place to share and discuss lesser known media: silent films, vintage exploitation flicks, finely aged TV, PSAs and other oddities. | 267K | 262 | +6% | 33 | 20% | 58% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 42 | r/bestoftheinternet↗Home for the best pics, gifs and videos on the internet! Share anything that will make us feel glad that the internet exists! | 267K | 54 | +3% | 33 | 18% | 13% | 69% | Yes |
| 43 | r/Whatisthis↗Welcome to r/whatisthis, a subreddit for identifying objects of unknown make, type, or origin. If you have something and you don't know what it is, submit it here to find out. | 249K | 681 | +6% | 30 | 39% | 83% | 96% | Yes |
| 44 | r/opendirectories↗Links to unprotected directories of pics, vids, music, software and otherwise interesting files. | 243K | 49 | +8% | 31 | 11% | 52% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 45 | r/AtinAtinLang↗The ultimate gatekeeping subreddit in the Philippines. If you know, you know. Kung may na-discover ka, i-splook mo na, pero atin-atin lang ha? | 227K | 204 | +52% | 28 | 56% | 90% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 46 | r/absoluteunit↗For things that are abnormally large. | 192K | 362 | +23% | 36 | 21% | 70% | – | Yes |
| 47 | r/FoundPhotos↗new-account friendlyPhotos that you find out and about. Like /r/FoundPaper, but with photos. | 187K | 277 | +40% | 40 | 51% | 77% | 14% | Yes |
| 48 | r/MarkMyWords↗The Ultimate Opinion. | 180K | 135 | +3% | 36 | 19% | 78% | 91% | No |
| 49 | r/UtterlyInteresting↗A home for all those things we see that could be described as interesting. | 153K | 95 | +37% | 41 | 26% | 100% | 76% | Yes |
| 50 | r/illusionporn↗Illusion, Michael | 151K | 38 | +6% | 32 | 19% | 57% | – | Yes |
| 51 | r/funfacts↗r/funfacts is all about fun and interesting facts for everyone to share in a welcoming community! | 132K | 199 | +24% | 32 | 21% | 73% | 30% | Yes |
| 52 | r/intrestingasfuck↗R/interestingasfuck but with looser posting rules. Obvious spam will still be removed. | 121K | 133 | +49% | 36 | 18% | 59% | 67% | Yes |
| 53 | r/AllThatsInteresting↗Explore the most fascinating stories of the past and present with All That's Interesting. | 116K | 215 | +231% | 37 | 31% | 56% | 22% | Yes |
| 54 | r/midlyinteresting↗new-account friendlyDon't worry, we all make mistakes. What you were looking for is reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting. However, feel free to stay as long as you’d like. This is a safe place for your spelling mistakes. | 110K | 250 | +43% | 34 | 36% | 71% | 15% | Yes |
| 55 | r/niftyaf↗Nifty gadgets and other items! | 110K | 64 | +40% | 37 | 12% | – | 25% | Yes |
| 56 | r/FascinatingAsFuck↗A community celebrating the strange, beautiful, ingenious, and extraordinary things that make the world fascinating. | 106K | 52 | +142% | 39 | 21% | 63% | 34% | Yes |
| 57 | r/todayIlearnedPH↗Trivia sharing subreddit for Filipinos | We discover new things each day. Share your learnings and discoveries here and let's all geek out together. 💡 | 104K | 98 | +57% | 29 | 42% | 91% | 32% | Yes |
| 58 | r/ephemera↗Written and printed (and other recorded) matter not intended to be kept and saved. Share your advertising trade cards, airsickness bags, matchbooks, postcards, ticket stubs, old certificates - anythi | 102K | 196 | +48% | 40 | 59% | 71% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 59 | r/SomebodyMakeThis↗Welcome to r/SomebodyMakeThis, the home for ideas by people who lack time, money, or skills. This is the first step in your idea journey -- make a post if you have an idea, and comment on posts prov | 101K | 186 | +29% | 29 | 18% | 65% | 30% | Yes |
| 60 | r/theories↗new-account friendlyWelcome to r/Theories! The subreddit for sharing any and all theories that you have come up with. Whether it be fan-theories based on films, books or TV shows, or theories on the world itself, feel | 85K | 309 | +96% | 36 | 26% | 63% | 9% | Yes |
| 61 | r/misc↗The best of reddit, and a place for everything else. | 81K | 50 | +2% | 38 | 17% | 54% | 98% | Yes |
| 62 | r/CoolVideosNoMusic↗Welcome to r/CoolVideosNoMusic! Don’t be afraid to unmute your audio here! This is a subreddit for people to post cool videos without those annoying music added in. This is the place for the pure, co | 72K | 33 | +40% | 39 | 16% | – | – | Yes |
| 63 | r/BananasForScale↗Welcome to r/Bananasforscale! The place where strangers post items with a banana to show scale! Put away those pesky rulers and discard the tape measures because now you have the most precise instrume | 68K | 37 | +22% | 26 | 33% | 51% | – | Yes |
| 64 | r/claustrophobia↗A subreddit to induce the fear of claustrophobia | 64K | 37 | +64% | 35 | 22% | 70% | – | Yes |
| 65 | r/PictureGame↗Join us on Discord! Figure out the answer using only what's in the picture, and leave your answer in the comments. If your answer is correct, you post the next round! Please read the complete rules b | 59K | 816 | +1% | 22 | 20% | 100% | Approved only | Yes |
| 66 | r/cool↗/r/cool is a subreddit dedicated to the coolest things on Earth. | 59K | 178 | +231% | 36 | 17% | 100% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 67 | r/RedditDayOf↗Each day is a new topic, which range from obscure to common place. People are encouraged to post something interesting and informative relevant to the day's topic. The most popular post of the day get | 57K | 95 | +3% | 31 | 20% | 15% | – | Yes |
| 68 | r/videoessay↗A hub for video essays, super cuts, and other videos critically observing media texts. | 40K | 196 | +8% | 25 | 18% | 35% | 59% | Yes |
| 69 | r/IWasTodayYearsOld↗A unique community to learn about things we realized only just today were not what we thought, seemed, or understood them to be. Different than r/TIL, in that, these things are very obvious, more cul | 38K | 40 | +57% | 37 | 46% | 77% | – | Yes |
| 70 | r/PencilStabbers↗This is a subreddit made for people who have been stabbed with a pencil and have a black dot. It's sort of like a club. It's pretty great. DO NOT inflict harm on yourself for the sake of posting on t | 35K | 40 | +23% | 28 | 33% | – | – | Yes |
| 71 | r/DesiMingle↗Social Corner for South Asians | 31K | 472 | +1591% | 23 | 25% | 99% | 60% | No |
| 72 | r/Detective↗Detect or discover the existence of; | 30K | 167 | +71% | 35 | 47% | 63% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 73 | r/BabelForum↗A forum for libraryofbabel.info, a universal library of text and images | 26K | 31 | +28% | 21 | 20% | 77% | 24% | Yes |
| 74 | r/didyouknow↗Did You Know...? | 24K | 60 | +194% | 38 | 19% | 66% | 47% | Yes |
| 75 | r/ideas↗Out of the box ideas are particularly welcome! Check out the tips below to increase the chances that your post gets accepted. | 24K | 198 | +23% | 28 | 24% | 31% | 100% | No |
| 76 | r/pinkscare↗beautiful angelic princess city // offshoot of r/redscarepod | 21K | 287 | +100% | 27 | 77% | 78% | Approved only | Yes |
| 77 | r/boneidentification↗new-account friendlyFind a strange bone? Can't seem to figure out what it belongs to? You have come to the right place! | 21K | 312 | +489% | 33 | 43% | 80% | 3% | Yes |
| 78 | r/conlangscirclejerk↗Post your original, creative conlaŋs here. The more glottal trills, the better. DAE polypersonal aspect infixes? Also no drama pls | 19K | 31 | +20% | 20 | 25% | 65% | – | Yes |
| 79 | r/howdoesthiswork↗How does this work? Kind of like /r/whatisthis | 18K | 36 | – | 36 | 31% | 71% | – | Yes |
| 80 | r/showerthoughs↗For the submissions that were either too good or didn't make the cut of r/showerthoughts. You decide! | 16K | 163 | +52% | 35 | 22% | 76% | – | No |
| 81 | r/TheGreatOnesReborn↗The Great Ones: A place to make friends and share music, videos, images, good discussions, or whatever else you want. Nearly uncensored. Say what's on your mind. For you too are a Great One. This comm | 16K | 103 | +51% | 40 | 14% | 55% | – | Yes |
| 82 | r/circIeoftrust↗What even is a Circie? | 15K | 190 | +84% | 19 | 30% | 79% | – | Yes |
| 83 | r/Autocompletebutbetter↗A place for autocomplete-lovers to explore strings of words and sentences from various like-minded users, whether it makes sense or not. From filling in with predictive text prompts to conversing usin | 13K | 334 | +137% | 30 | 53% | 99% | 30% | Yes |
| 84 | r/fallacy↗Catch a fallacy? What type and why? | 9.2K | 56 | +54% | 35 | 14% | 85% | – | Yes |
| 85 | r/WhatIsThisTool↗Welcome to /r/WhatIsThisTool. A place to find out what that odd-looking tool you found actually is. | 8.2K | 133 | – | 52 | 7% | 87% | – | Yes |
| 86 | r/RandomPics↗Random pictures. | 7.2K | 84 | +25% | 22 | 27% | 15% | 62% | Yes |
| 87 | r/ghostposter↗This is a place for people who (used to) frequent ghostposter.com 👻 | 155 | 56 | +36% | 37 | – | 90% | – | Yes |
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How this list is built
Subreddits are grouped into topics by what their posts are about; this list holds the interesting group. We include subreddits that are safe for work and had at least 30 new posts in September 2026, about one a day.
Members is Reddit's subscriber count; growth compares it with a year earlier. Posts with a reply is the share of posts that got at least one comment over the last three months. Median author age and women are estimated from what authors say about themselves, and shown only when enough of them did. New-account posts removed is the share of posts from accounts younger than 7 days that were removed; communities at or below 17% are marked new-account friendly. Min. age/karma means the subreddit asks for a minimum account age or karma before you can post.
The list is rebuilt every month from public Reddit posts and comments. Data and CSV are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.
Interesting subreddits: common questions
What is the biggest interesting subreddit?
r/todayilearned, with 41.7M members in September 2026. Next are r/Showerthoughts (34.2M) and r/videos (26.9M).
Which interesting subreddits are the most active?
By posts in September 2026: r/mildlyinteresting (5,276 posts), r/interestingasfuck (4,913 posts) and r/todayilearned (3,330 posts).
Which interesting subreddits can a new account post in?
r/doohickeycorporation (3% of new-account posts removed), r/FoundPhotos (14% of new-account posts removed) and r/midlyinteresting (15% of new-account posts removed). They ask for no minimum karma or account age, and most posts from accounts under a week old stay up.
How often is this list updated?
Every month, when we rebuild our subreddit data. This version uses data for September 2026. Member counts come from Reddit; activity, removals and who writes come from public Reddit posts and comments.
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